The $ 400 million agreement with the State Department with Tesla to build electric military vehicles was removed, the company was removed, according to released government documents.

It is recalled that Tesla’s chief executive, Ilon Musk, gives advice to US President Donald Trump on how to reduce federal spending.

The lucrative contractwhich is expected in September – published on the State Department’s website last year, in accordance with transparency laws aimed at stimulating competition in the government’s procurement process, and amended Wednesday to remove Tesla’s name.

Since the Drop Site and other media website reported that the possibility of a contract would be a company owned by Musk, the document was informed to omit any reference to Tesla. Thus, the term “Armored Tesla” was replaced by “Armored Electric Vehicles”.

State Department sources say that these government documents were delivered as they are by the previous government and therefore no project has been assigned through a contract for the construction of military electric cars.

Tesla’s potential contract had been recorded in procurement forecasts since December, according to Wayback Machine, after Trump’s election but before taking up his duties. The document is self -described as “projection of contract opportunities” and also includes three other potential armored vehicles, including one with BMW, totaling $ 130 million.

The removal of Tesla’s name from the published contract comes to add to the debate on the great influence of Ilon Musk in Trump’s governance.

Trump, wanting to calm down the critical looks on the subject, gave the reason that Ilon Musk would not interfere with government issues when they are contradictory in his business interests.

This month, the White House confirmed that it had appointed Musk as a “special state employee”, a regime that excludes him from some of the rules – including economic transparency and the absence of conflict of interest – that apply to full -time state employees.

Musk, who is the richest man in the world, spent at least $ 277 million in support of Trump and other Republican candidates.
The US Doge Service, led by Musk, aims to reduce government spending and reduce its role in providing fewer services and exerting reduced supervision to private businesses. He also said that he appreciated transparency in the federal government’s decisions on expenditure.

In recent weeks, Doge assistants – abbreviation for the Department of Government Efficiency – have caused chaos in government organizations, placing themselves in leadership positions and eliminating jobs and programs that came to an ideological contradiction with the administration. His team has sought access to sensitive data and has overturned functions in more than 18 federal services, has begun sweeping redundancies and has caused chaos in areas such as health and agriculture research.

Musk companies have earned billions of dollars in government contracts in recent years. In 2021, Congress approved a new $ 5 billion expense to build a national EV charging network – tens of millions of which were commissioned to Tesla – although the Trump government suspended the program last week.